Increased circulating immune complexes in acute stroke: The triggering role of Chlamydia pneumoniae and cytomegalovirus

Stroke

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 936-940

  Tarnacka, Beata ^a   Gromadzka, Gräyna ^a,b   Czonkowska, Anna ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Immune complexes; Infection; Stroke, ischemic

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; POLAND; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROLOGIC TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036215414     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000014562.75483.6B     Document Type: Article

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